Noun: faible
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | faible |
| Plural m | faibles |
Sample Sentences
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J'ai un faible pour Schubert. (I have a soft spot for Schubert.)
Nouns inflected like faible
trichogramme,
wintergreen,
urinoir,
contrespionnage,
aréomètre,
palefroi,
whiskey,
whippin,
tee-shirt,
hypocycloïde,
surrisque,
lanternon,
dissentiment,
phonogramme,
phonographe,
trioxygène,
fétichisme,
synode,
synthé,
modérantisme, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French foible, from Old French feble, foible, from Vulgar Latin *febilis, dissimilated form of Latin flēbilis. Doublet of flébile, a borrowing. Compare English feeble. See: Latin Nouns '
flēbilis'.
Verbs referencing "faible"
English Nouns
foible, German Nouns
Faible.
Translations